The first table below looks at the demand for ITIL Certification in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ITIL Certification over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the Manchester region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Certification
Rank 66 74 66
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -8
Contract jobs citing ITIL Certification 7 10 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.766% 0.769% 0.482%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.833% 4.902% 3.876%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 2
Average daily rate £355 £263 £298
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+34.91% -11.68%
UK excluding London average daily rate £359 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+10.51% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £17.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £12.68 £16.50
% change year-on-year
+63.70% -23.18%
All Qualifications
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
120 204 129
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 13.13% 15.68% 12.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 75 51
Average daily rate £298 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.46% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £144 £186 £128
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 15 8
Average hourly rate £22.00 £19.50 £18.40
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.82% +5.97%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.77 £18.00 £12.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.40 £37.00 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
ITIL Certification
North West

ITIL Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ITIL Certification across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Manchester ITIL Certification Jobs Demand Trend

ITIL Certification
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ITIL Certification across the Manchester region.

Manchester ITIL Certification Daily Rate Trend

ITIL Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ITIL Certification across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Manchester ITIL Certification Daily Rate Histogram

ITIL Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ITIL Certification across the Manchester region.

Manchester ITIL Certification Hourly Rate Trend

ITIL Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing ITIL Certification also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited ITIL Certification.

1 13 (100.00%) ITIL
2 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 6 (46.15%) Service Management
2 6 (46.15%) SLA
3 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
3 5 (38.46%) Project Management
3 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (30.77%) PRINCE2
5 3 (23.08%) Windows
5 3 (23.08%) MS Exchange
5 3 (23.08%) PMP
5 3 (23.08%) PMI Certification
5 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
5 3 (23.08%) HP
5 3 (23.08%) SAP
5 3 (23.08%) Service Delivery
6 2 (15.38%) VMware
6 2 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (15.38%) Degree
6 2 (15.38%) Resource Management
6 2 (15.38%) Performance Management
6 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (15.38%) Citrix
6 2 (15.38%) MCP
6 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (15.38%) MCITP
6 2 (15.38%) Matrix Management
6 2 (15.38%) Release Management
6 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement

ITIL Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing ITIL Certification also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited ITIL Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (23.08%) MS Exchange
2 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (7.692%) MS Office
1 1 (7.692%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.692%) DHCP
1 1 (7.692%) SNMP
1 1 (7.692%) TCP/IP
1 1 (7.692%) VPN
1 1 (7.692%) DNS
1 1 (7.692%) SAN
1 1 (7.692%) Firewall
1 1 (7.692%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) MySQL
1 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Analyst
2 4 (30.77%) Service Desk Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) Service Manager
4 2 (15.38%) Services Delivery Manager
4 2 (15.38%) Release Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (7.692%) Service Desk Team Leader
5 1 (7.692%) Service Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Architect
5 1 (7.692%) Team Leader
5 1 (7.692%) Change Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.692%) Blackberry
1 1 (7.692%) Management Information System
1 1 (7.692%) Statistics
1 1 (7.692%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (7.692%) Linux
3 1 (7.692%) Windows 2000
3 1 (7.692%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) ITIL
2 6 (46.15%) Service Management
3 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (38.46%) Project Management
4 4 (30.77%) PRINCE2
5 3 (23.08%) Service Delivery
6 2 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (15.38%) Performance Management
6 2 (15.38%) Resource Management
6 2 (15.38%) Matrix Management
6 2 (15.38%) Release Management
6 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (7.692%) Change Control
7 1 (7.692%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (7.692%) Time Management
7 1 (7.692%) Network Management
7 1 (7.692%) Supplier Management
7 1 (7.692%) Incident Management
7 1 (7.692%) Change Management
7 1 (7.692%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.692%) C
1 1 (7.692%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) PMP
1 3 (23.08%) PMI Certification
2 2 (15.38%) MCITP
2 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) MCP
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.692%) MCSE
3 1 (7.692%) MCSA
3 1 (7.692%) CCNA
3 1 (7.692%) ISEB
3 1 (7.692%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.692%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) SLA
2 1 (7.692%) QA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.692%) Samba
2 1 (7.692%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.692%) vSphere
2 1 (7.692%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) HP
2 3 (23.08%) SAP
3 2 (15.38%) VMware
3 2 (15.38%) Citrix
4 1 (7.692%) Avaya